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Today I'd like to tell you a bit about a film series that Gathr puts on every week, both in the Detroit area and nationwide. I had the opportunity to see The Iceman through them back in May, and it was a nice experience.

You can buy tickets for individual movies or sign up for a membership, which gets you guaranteed seats to any of the movies that you'd like to see. In the Detroit area, Gathr shows its films at the Maple Theater, a beautiful theater in Bloomfield Hills that has recently been remodeled. I've been seeing films at the Maple for a while now, back when it was called the Maple Art Theater, and I love the renovations - the theaters there are 10x better than how they used to be, and there's an attached coffee shop that's great as well.

Gathr has been kind enough to let me give out some tickets for their showings for the next three weeks, and to kick it off we have The Trials of Muhammad Ali, for next Tuesday, August 13th, at 7:30pm. I have five pairs of tickets to give away, and you can enter to win in the Rafflecopter form below.

About the movie:
The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers Ali's toughest bout: his battle to overturn a five-year prison sentence for refusing US military service in Vietnam. Prior to becoming the most recognizable face on earth, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning race, religion, and wartime dissent. Trials zeroes in on the most controversial years of Ali's life, when an emerging sports superhero chooses faith and conscience over fame and fortune. The ticket giveaway will end this Sunday, August 11th at 11:59pm EST, and winners will be notified the morning of August 12th. Winners must respond within 24 hours or other winner(s) will be chosen. Tickets are in PDF form and will be emailed to winners once they respond.

So we've all been there ... that time when you're on an important phone call, and then the call drops. Or even when you need to use the internet on your smartphone, only to realize that you're at your data limit for the month.

I drive all over the metro Detroit area for movie screenings; because of this, most of the time I know where I'm going, but sometimes, I'm in an unfamiliar area or at an unfamiliar theater and I need GPS to know how to get there and back.

A few months ago, I was headed to the AMC Forum (Sterling Heights area) and I wanted to know the best way to get home from there. My phone kept stalling ... and stalling ... and then the Maps app crashed! Gah! I was extremely frustrated. I was finally able to re-start the phone and get safely home, but it TOOK. SO. LONG. Had the Maps app worked the fir…

*Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. The opinions expressed here, however, are my own. As long-time readers of this blog surely know, I travel quite a lot. A few years ago, I only took about 2-3 trips per year, not including trips in the state of Michigan (Grand Haven weekends, etc.), but this past year, I was fortunate in that I was able to travel very frequently.

I recently heard about a new travel site, DirectHotels.com, which is similar to Kayak.com, in that it searches all of the other travel sites (Orbitz, Expedia, etc.) to find the best deals for you. I gave it a bit of a test run to see if that is indeed true.

About the site:
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I've written these past two years about Bookstock, a huge used book & media sale that takes place at Laurel Park Place, in Livonia, and it's returning again this year, from Sunday, 4/22 through Sunday, 4/29.Read more about the event over at my book blog! I was finally able to check it out last year, and they had a large mix of books and media (including DVDs, Blu-rays, and records).To learn more about Bookstock, click hereto visit my book blog, or visit their official site here.